SR Sosiggun Soren 1.0.0

Whenever I got bad weapon drops in SupplyRaid, I would pick up and use the enemies' sosigguns. It sometimes felt like cheating, especially if they had decent sights and higher power than I was supposed to have, so I decided to make a SupplyRaid character where using sosigguns isn't cheating.

Sosiggun Soren is a character for the SupplyRaid game mode, balanced for use with SafehouseProgression. Soren's playstyle is built around being low on ammo for your regular guns; you'll need to conserve ammo by grabbing and using sosigguns where possible. If you're lucky, a sosig might drop the real version of a sosiggun for you to bring home -- there are 57 guns, 6 melee weapons, and 4 super-rare guns to collect.

Soren's difficulty depends heavily on the characteristics of the enemy faction you're playing against, namely: The armour and weaponry of the sosigs; their respawn rate; and the number that can be on the field at the same time. Soren comes with a custom faction, the Slow Burners, that gives a gentler difficulty curve and longer respawn times so that you have more time to scrounge for sosigguns.

Play tips

• I suggest setting Spawnlock Enabled for Soren, but not spawnlocking ammo. There are two reasons for this:

  1. With Spawnlock Enabled, you can reload empty sosigguns by shaking them. You'll hear a rattling brass sound while you're shaking, and a Ding! when the sosiggun is reloaded. Only fully empty sosigguns can be reloaded. Most sosigguns have an open-looking chamber when they are emptied.
  2. There is an engine bug where, if Limited Ammo mode is enabled, then revolvers and internal magazine shotguns spawn into the world with a bunch of loose ammo or speedloaders. It all works fine with Spawnlock Enabled though.

• A grappling hook, range finder, and flashlight are free at supply points if you need them for the map you're in.

• Stun grenades and smoke grenades are free at every supply point. Use stuns to disable approaching sosigs. Use smokes to obstruct bad sightlines, especially when you're outranged.

• Some ammo boxes are sold in the Melee section of the shop, for use with guns that need to be loaded with individual cartridges (shotguns, revolvers, bolt-actions).

• Looted weapons come with the bare minimum, e.g. a shotgun drops with a box of 5 shells. Weapons that you purchase from the Buy Panel come with significantly more ammo, and sometimes other attachments.

• If you put lots of empty magazines and speedloaders on the Ammo Refill table (even ammo boxes!) you can refill everything with a single purchase.

Known issues

• Unwanted ammo spawns in Limited Ammo mode. There is an engine bug where, if Limited Ammo mode is enabled, then revolvers and internal magazine shotguns spawn into the world with a bunch of loose ammo or speedloaders. I have reported this bug.
• Most sosigguns cannot be extracted to the safehouse or saved. More sosigguns are removed from you when you extract to the safehouse, or are not saved when you leave the safehouse. Some sosigguns are, like the P90 and DP12. I have reported this bug.
• Sometimes double attachments spawn from the Buy Panel. I have made some weapons spawn with bespoke attachments when purchased through the Buy Panel, e.g. the Ruger 10/22 spawns with its bespoke Picatinny rail adapter. Because H3VR randomly chooses to do this on its own sometimes, you may get two copies of the attachment.

Future wishlist

• When SupplyRaid supports per-level drop chances, I'd like to have higher-tier weapons drop only in later levels. For now, weapons are in tiered loot tables that get much rarer as the tier improves.

Recommended mods

• HardcodeSosigAI speeds up sosigs' reaction times. This character and its faction, the Slow Burners, were balanced with this mod in mind.
• BulletKinesis attracts nearby bullets to your hand when you grab one with the laser grabber.
• PlayerFootsteps lets sosigs hear you when you're running nearby (or not hear you when you're walking slowly).